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The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
- Thor Heyerdahl
- 1948
Sep 4, 2014 · There is a well-documented tradition of voyaging between the two island groups, and it is clear that in the 13th century, Tahitians used sophisticated navigational skills to travel the 2,500-mile...
- Doug Herman
Kon-Tiki, raft in which the Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed in 1947 from the western coast of South America to the islands east of Tahiti.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On 28 April 1947, a balsa raft with six men and a parrot set sail from Callao in Peru. The goal was to reach Polynesia. The skipper was the 33-year-old Thor Heyerdahl. The Kon-Tiki expedition was the result of a theory he had pondered ever since his stay on the Pacific island of Fatu Hiva.
Aug 2, 2023 · As the six men pushed the Kon-Tiki off the sandy beaches, they watched as the coastline of their homeland shrank into the distance, swallowed up by the vast blue void of the Pacific. The...
Nov 24, 2009 · On August 7, 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near...
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Feb 12, 2019 · The Kon-Tiki voyage led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl was a huge success and proved beyond doubt that Polynesia could have been settled from South America. One of the great mysteries of anthropology is how Polynesia – a vast pseudo-country in the Pacific spread triangularly between Rapa Nui, Hawaii and New Zealand – came to be ...
